Despite my reputation

[james_davis_nicoll]

I don't often find bodies on my way home.

I'm just waiting on the call that will let me know if, as I expect, it was a very drunk guy rather than a dead guy. Non-responsive, anyway.

Comments

[redbird]

Of course you don't--you're the one who has all the improbable accidents, not bystanders.

[velochicdunord.livejournal.com]

Alley or street?

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

Near Charles and Benton. On Charles, which is a fairly major street. I am a little surprised I was the first to call it in.

Not literally on Charles, though. Front lawn of Lannan Michael David law offices, in fact.

[kalmn.livejournal.com]

erk. that seems too exciting. i hope he turns out to be very very drunk instead of otherwise.

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

As far as I can tell from the follow-up, he was just drunk, because none of the things that would happen if he was dead happened.

Young guy, though, maybe even high school.

[joenotcharles.livejournal.com]

Last year a bunch of us gathered in a park, and one of us (who is very obvious gay and Jewish) mentioned that he'd been followed down the street for a ways be a wild-haired Charles Manson type ranting about Jesus and Satan. When he told us this, another person present said, "Yeah, the crazies are really out tonight - I passed a woman who was tied up just over that hill."

Since dusk had not yet fallen and the park was full of people, we all figured it was just somebody combining their interests in exhibitionist sex and bondage. It was a bit creepy, but we put it out of our mind.

Until about two hours later, when we broke up the party and left, and he came tearing back over the hill to say that she was still lying there.

As far as I know, the police never phoned any of us back with a follow-up, so we don't know what went on.

I quite often pass homeless people sleeping so still that they don't look like they're breathing, and wonder if I should go poke them to make sure. But I figure if they were just asleep it would really piss them off if every passerby woke them up that way.

[mirth-prolan.livejournal.com]

Just today I was waiting for a bus with some friends, and across the street there was this elderly man just laying in the grass. Next to a utility pole. With a cast.

It was really weird. He kept looking around like he was in a daze, but we didn't really want to say anything so we just ignored him.

He didn't say anything, he was just sort of there.

[thesaucernews.livejournal.com]

Despite my reputation, I don't often find bodies on my way home. Truth is, more often than not, they find me.

Too many dead people just know where I live.

[boywhocantsayno.livejournal.com]

No, it's thespian who usually finds the dead bodies...

[elynne.livejournal.com]

Better than finding them in your back yard/driveway.

... hm, come to think of it, I'm not entirely sure that I wrote about that incident in my LJ when it occurred. I should have; these days, I definitely would have. Maybe I didn't think of it. I looked for it a bit, but didn't find it.

... um, yeah. There's a story there. :)